Subway

It's the most wonderfully weird time of the year by far, especially where food is concerned. But if you thought we'd already seen the weirdest items you were spectacularly wrong. Subway has joined the fray and announced that it's currently testing a set of Christmas baubles filled with its most popular sandwich sauces. It's the kind of story that makes you look at the calendar to double check we haven't magically jumped forward to April. Read More >>

This article was originally posted on 30th October 2017, but in the light of the "KFC Crisis" we thought you might like to be reminded about what substitute fast food eateries to avoid. Spoiler: pretty much all other fried chicken shops. Sorry.Read More >>

If you’ve ridden the New York City subway, you know the feeling. You buy a flimsy plastic card that lets you ride the train, and when you try to swipe it at the turnstile, it doesn’t work. You swipe again. The machine asks you to swipe again. You swipe again. The machine asks you to swipe again at the same turnstile. This can go on for hours, until you beg an MTA employee to let you through. That’s the cursed MetroCard experience, and as of last week, its days are numbered. Read More >>

I’m not scared to say it: I love a good Subway sandwich. My dad used to take me to the only Subway in town after we went food shopping, and I remember tracking my growth based on how much of the toppings I could see over the tall counter. Now, it seems, Subway wants to ruin that experience for future generations. Read More >>

Seeing a train get assembled is a lot like watching someone play with Lego, only if that someone was God and the Lego was stupidly large. This timelapse of a Crossrail Elizabeth line train being built out at Bombardier in Derby is especially cool because it seems like pieces and parts are just flying together. Read More >>

The name Piotr Kupiec may not ring any bells, but he’s actually one of the world’s most wanted men, having been on the run since 2007. So where’s he been hiding? Forests? Underground? The second page of Google search? Nope. He’s actually been working at a Subway near a police station. Read More >>

What happens if you try to combine 214 different underground train networks — including 791 routes and 11,924 stations — into a single tube map? This beautiful tangle of colour and lines is what. Read More >>

Manspreading—the phenomenon where males require extra room on trains for their oversized scrotums—has been in the news lately with several reports of men being arrested on the New York City subway for occupying more than one seat. It's an "offence" seen on UK tubes, and even the celebrities of Game of Thronesare culprits. But surely this isn’t the worst offense committed on our public transportation systems? Read More >>

Tunnel-boring machines are genuine marvels of modern technology. They are self-contained contraptions big enough to build entire subway tunnels, a job that used to require thousands of pick-axes and the sacrifice of quite a few lives. But once construction is finished, getting the machines out can take months. Read More >>

A few years ago The New York Times likened New York's underground system to "a house of horrors". But as a newly published set of nearly 500 photos show, New York City's subway system wasn't always so horrific. It's bizarrely beautiful in all its squalor. Read More >>

Don't smoke in the train station. Don't spit your gum on the floor. And please, god, don't splay your legs out like no one else is around you. These sound like basic rules of today's public transit, but they're actually messages that graced the walls of Tokyo's subway forty years ago. Read More >>

It's been several months since we last checked in with New York City's perennially delayed, incredibly expensive infrastructural wonder: The East Side Access project, a plan to build a new station beneath Grand Central station that will connect Manhattan and Queens. Deep below the city, work continues—and now, the MTA has given us an update. Read More >>